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Epoc Digest Tue, 24 Jun 2003 Volume 01 : Number 288

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In today's Epoc Digest 20 messages:

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- Epoc News

- Editing PowerPoint files?

- Re: Einstein Theory

- Re: Einstein & Light

- RE: Einstein Theory/Taglines

- Re: Standard 5mx VS 5mx Pro? What's in a name...?

- Re: 5mxPro Ram

- Re: Presentation Maker - convert to PowerPoint?

- Re: 1st netBook PRO

- Birthdays

- Re: eMail crashes (4 Owen)

- Re: Korbinian's Contacts

- Re: eMail crashes

- Street Pilot

- 5mx pro / GPRS idle

- Re: 5mx Pro ROMs

- Line feed storing

- Cheap Revo found in Norway, netBook 12V adapter.

- Symbian OS on nB, eMail folders, GPRS and Vodaphone,

- Revo/Mako won't close

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Date: 24 Jun 2003 10:50:05 +0100

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Subject: Epoc News

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 14:26:34 +0100

From: Peter Rand

Subject: Editing PowerPoint files?

I'm very happy with my Series 7 for just about all my business-related work. Lately however, I've been getting more and more PowerPoint files, which I am unfortunately unable to edit on the Series 7.

Does anyone know of a working standalone PowerPoint solution for ER5? I've heard of something called "Presentation Maker" which is A) no longer available and B) needs a desktop for the conversion process. Is there anything else out there now (or in the near future) that will do the trick?

Thanks,

Peter

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 14:27:40 +0100

From: Antony

Subject: Re: Einstein Theory

Owen H. Morgan on a piece of painted driftwood wrote: -

> I said RELATIVELY simple. <

If you wish to emphasise the point of the word relatively, you should state

what it is relative to.

and wrote: > And excellently explained by Michael Degn. <

Unfortunately, Michael Degn did not explain the meaning. He simply went on a

tangent to explain that an increase in kinetic energy results in an increase

in mass. He did not even go on to mention why an increase in Kinetic energy

increases mass. My question was entirely different.

Similarly with gravity, he explained that mass has gravity and kinetic

energy on a matter increases mass, but not why.

Saying a car has wheels does not explain why a car has wheels, or why you

feel the need to add an anecdote to the end of every message you post ;-)

Regards

Antony Booth

p.s. The meaning of life is one thing. Haven't you watched City Slickers?

The Universe and everything are one in the same.

God grant him the senility to forget the people he never liked anyway, the

good fortune to run into the ones he does and the eyesight to tell the

difference between a wave and a rock and hope his senility doesn't make him

forget how to read a GPS device.

On a piece of land##°hh.mm'N ##°hh.mm'W

Not in Ireland

Thought for the day: Just the one? Oh dear, but I can believe it.

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 15:00:49 +0100

From: michael robins

Subject: Re: Einstein & Light

Surely...?

Light is not actually a particle or a wave -

We use particle and wave descriptions and definitions as the best tools we have to describe what light is and what light does....

just my hapenny worth...

MikeR

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 15:27:02 +0100

From: Stephen Murgan

Subject: RE: Einstein Theory/Taglines

Boys and girls, this is getting silly.

I have found Owen's one-liners entertaining and witty - to the point where I have borrowed some of them for my own collection.

Antony, they are not to be taken literally.

Stephen

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It hasss the taglinesss, my Preciousss. We wantsss it, we do.

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 15:27:03 +0100

From: Stephan Block

Subject: Re: Standard 5mx VS 5mx Pro? What's in a name...?

In EPOC DIGEST V1 # 285 (5) , Korbinian wrote on 19 Jun 2003 16:54:38:

> "German "standard" 5mx: 1.05(327)"

> You really have the 'standard' 5mx OS-Image?

> Cool! One image which is missing in my collection... :)

> Could you please send it to me?

Hi Korbinian,

The OS image is in the ROM of my 5mx, so even if I knew how to get it out of there I'm not sure if it would be of any use (but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

You collect OS images? Out of curiosity, which ones do you have, and do you actually use them ?

Best regards

Stephan

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 15:27:13 +0100

From: Stephan Block

Subject: Re: 5mxPro Ram

In EPOC DIGEST V1 # 285 (5) , Timothy H.D. Williams wrote on 19 Jun 2003 20:35:20:

> Surely there is no reason for not deleting files if you don't want

> them? With the Pro you can wipe out Bombz, surely.

Unfortunately you can't because the Pro seems to reserve a fixed amount of 10 MB of its RAM for the OS, which it write-protects after the OS has been loaded.

Best regards

Stephan

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 15:27:28 +0100

From: Stephan Block

Subject: Re: Presentation Maker - convert to PowerPoint?

In EPOC DIGEST V1 # 285 (5) , Russell Hutson wrote on 20 Jun 2003 15:34:01:

> The PM Help mentions a convertor. Anyone know about this. If I install

> PsiWin, can I convert the file bypassing the serial link transmission?

Don't know about Presentation Maker in particular, but generally the converters provided by PsiWin can also convert files on the PC without actually transferring them. (From the Start menu, go to the PsiWin group and start "Convert Files".)

Best regards

Stephan

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 15:27:45 +0100

From: Stephan Block

Subject: Re: 1st netBook PRO

In EPOC DIGEST V1 # 286 (5) , Itamar Engelsman wrote on 22 Jun 2003 01:42:47:

> [Yes, I did sign the petition]. By the way, is the netPad underneath

> it also running WindowsCE ?

You can buy the netPad with WinCE .NET or with EPOC (R5 AFAIK).

Best regards

Stephan

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 15:29:40 +0100

From: Keith Giles

Subject: Birthdays

Happy Birthday, Owen.

With my 79th rapidly approaching this Saturday, I've probably forgotten most of those folks I didn't like; frequently see those I do; and having had lens implants in both eyes, I can *vividly* tell the difference. :-)

Happy Cycling,

Keith

Sunnyvale, CA

http://home.attbi.com/~ohsix827/

Thought For The Day: There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.

All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 16:23:45 +0100

From: Jack

Subject: Re: eMail crashes (4 Owen)

To Owen Subject: Re: eMail crashes (Index file)

>>>>>....Rebuilding the index file brought back quite a few old forgotten e-mails that had long since been archived to SaveMail<<<<.

Yes, one should archive more often X Savemail or (quicker) MailArc from :

http://www.kudata.freeserve.co.uk/

>>>>... . If you delete the Mail folder, the e-mails will be lost and e-mail will start again from scratch, so there is no need to make a new "fake" index file to kickstart it.<<<<

Of course delete only after archiving! One quick way of "archiving" is to cut/copy (elsewhere) the entire /Mail/ folder and, at leisure time) to explore its files, one after the other, from within the Mail/subdirectories .... one could find old forgotten attachments and msgs (which can be opened with editor)....

A rebuit Index file will not always allows to see (in Email window) all these "hidden" msgs.

I maintain my suggestion to "rebuild" /Mail/ itself when the Email application slows or hangs... as a prevention, I'll also suggest to keep /Mail/ the slimest you can by deleting and/or ARCHIVING.

Jack

There is no virtue like necessity. W. Shakespeare (RichardII I.iii).

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 16:34:21 +0100

From: Korbinian

Subject: Re: Korbinian's Contacts

Hi Phil

"I don't know what Korbinian wants to do with Contacts but I assume it's to do with "compartmentalising" contacts ("Contact Loader" may be what was meant). Some such utilities work by using extra Contacts files and renaming them as necessary."

Sorry, you misunderstand me. I should have it explained a little bit better.

My problem is that I had lost my actual contatcs.cdb file some time ago and had to synchronize it with my mobil phone to be up to date again. But this didn't worked well and so I have many entries twice. Meanwhile there exists different versions. Additionally the mobile phone synchronized the mobile number with business mobile number. Not to forget that the contacts-App database was a Data-App file once and it seems I didin't convert it well. For example I added domicile to the postal code field (because my database was structured this way) and renamed some fields and so on. Therfore every other program will get a little bit confused when I try to synchronize it :)

You can imagine that there is a little bit chaos now :)

The point is now: I wanted to write my own program which tidy up this chaos. This job is of course a very specific one which I have to do by myself.

(Perhaps I will even try to write some source to sync with my siemens cell phone which isn't supported by phoneman yet :( )

But I don't understand the usage of the contacts.opx which I need to manipulate the contacts database! I can't find any documentation about it. Only this example file which ... yae... I don't understand.

"But I use iContacts which uses it's own file to *enhance* the ER5 Contacts file and has immense flexibility...."

Sounds not bad! I have downloaded it some time ago but have never used it.

I will have a look on it again (after tidying up my database:).

Thank you!

regards

Korbinian

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 16:34:24 +0100

From: Korbinian

Subject: Re: eMail crashes

Hi Itamar,

"However, just wanted to say it might be worthwhile to use SaveMail to keep your emails and leave the email folder(s) as empty as possible. I never have more than in total 20 to 30 emails in my various folders and never encountered any problems with crashing the program."

Yes, of course. And you have the adcance that you can search your emails!

But in this case I don't like macros very much.

btw: I didn't have problems with my eMail-App crashing because of to many emails but because of playing around and trying out Owens 'index-file creation trick' :)

regards

Korbinian

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 18:11:52 +0100

From: Hoffman, Susan

Subject: Street Pilot

WoodyB asked: To avoid buying a laptop I have considered the Garmin Street Pilot

> Deluxe, but appears I might still need a laptop to load various maps when > I move to different areas of the country. Or would have to buy a bunch of > memory cards and load the area maps before I left.

We have a Street Pilot Deluxe. It comes with a memory card that will hold a large number of the area maps. Ours is currently holding all maps from Boston to DC plus Chicago, and is only about 1/3 full. My guess is that you can load all the areas you are going to be in onto one card. The base maps for North America include all of the interstates for all of the United States without having to load them onto the memory card. It is, however, easier to create a route on the PC than on the Street Pilot Deluxe itself (but it is certainly doable without a laptop). If you haven't used this model before, the $20 instructional video is probably worth it.

Susan Katz Hoffman

Pepper Hamilton LLP--------------

3000 Two Logan Square

18th & Arch Streets

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Tel: 215-981-4990

Fax: 215-827-5909

e-mail: hoffmans

web address: www.pepperlaw.com

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 19:11:37 +0100

From: Darryl Kempster

Subject: 5mx pro / GPRS idle

Just back from Canada with Blur and catching up on the digests.

Stephan Block and Owen H. Morgan both mentioned UK English ROM images for the 5mx Pro. Can either of them tell us where they got them from?

I ordered an english 5mx pro from Clove months ago but their supply seems to have dried up : (

Mark Deppe and Peter McCafferty both had problems with GPRS dropping the connection while idle or " if logged into something like epocChat and long loading appelets. " Mark mentioned having a Nokia 6100 and I think this is the cause of the problem. Unless thngs have changed recently Nokias always had an automatic time out on the IR port - about 2 minutes on idle if I remember correctly. This is a hardware limitation and a right pain in the ar*e if you do all your web browsing via mobile like me and Owen. One reason I've always used an Ericsson : ) cos when you turn the IR on it stays on till the jobs done. Very useful when trying to send attachments while bombing down the motorway in a tourbus and the signall keeps dropping out! Almost makes up for their lack of fax capability : (

Darryl

About to dash off to France with Soulfly

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 20:53:36 +0100

From: Korbinian

Subject: Re: 5mx Pro ROMs

Hi Stephan

"The OS image is in the ROM of my 5mx, so even if I knew how to get it out of there I'm not sure if it would be of any use (but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)."

Aahh... Sorry, I thought you have the ROM-Image for use with a mxPro..

"You collect OS images? Out of curiosity, which ones do you have, and do you actually use them ?"

NO! Im not collecting all mx (without Pro) images up to 257 :)

First I had the two german ones (273 and 319). Then, only some weeks ago, I heard the first time from an english ROM which exists (250). And now I thought you have the sys$rom.bin from a german mx with version 327!! Wow a newer version than mine :) But.... sniff

To answer your questions: ("collecting" was perhaps a little bit "high-ranking" :)

I only have the three named above. I'm using only the german 319.

I tried out the english one but then my machine was very difficult to use because of the german keyboard layout :)

Sadly you can't remap alls keys-combination with keymapper. Like Fn+Space (ok that's obvious :). But Fn+q is at an english keyboard some special character (like â or similar) for example. I'm usedbut you can't remap this combination (if the english ROM-Image is loaded).

Not to forget all the keystrokes in System, Word etc. which were all changed. And, you wouldn't believe it, if you search for example in control panel for 'Bildschirm' or 'Ein/Aus' you won't find 'Screen' or 'Switch on/off'. Same in all the menus.

Therefore I only use the 319 which is the newest of course.

You see, not half as curious as you think :))

regards

Korbinian

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 21:24:35 +0100

From: Rolf Vonau

Subject: Line feed storing

Hi EPOC programmers,

today I stated, that the line feed on some machines will be copied in the clipboard not as 06 but as 07 !!!

Could someone give me an explanation for this abnormality?

Do it depend on software version or on what?

Best Regards

Rolf

Munich

http://home.arcor.de/rhvonau/index.htm

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Date: 23 Jun 2003 22:17:23 +0100

From: Trygve Henriksen

Subject: Cheap Revo found in Norway, netBook 12V adapter.

Greetings!

A message to other Norwegian Psioneers:

run to your local Binders shop and check their shelves!

Today I found a Revo Plus for the shameful price of NOK 500 (about £40) in the shop outside of Molde.

The machine was rescued, but I can't afford to check every store in Norway...

My Psion collection now stands at:

Organiser One

Organiser II CM, LZ64, POS200, POS350

HC100, MC400,

S3(128KB), S3a(512KB), S3c(2MB), Siena(512KB)

S5(8MB), netBook, Revo, Revo Plus

In addition I have the Geofox One (16MB version)

Now, if I could only get hold of an Osaris...

In other news, I received a Vanson 'Auto DC Power Regulated Adaptor' last week.

This is a power adaptor with a 12V input that can deliver 15/16/18/19/20/22/24V output. (Max 70W)

One of the exchangeable plugs fits the netBook perfectly, too.

The Vanson model nr. is SDR-70W

I got it through Clas Ohlson(Order no. 32.5502, NOK400 + shipping), so it should be available in Sweden and Denmark, also. (Not certain if they serve other countries)

Maybe Maplin or other stores sell it, too.

Anyway, the adapter works OK with my netBook, so now I will be able to power my netBook when I go cayaking this summer.

(It'll be packed in a plastic bag, then wrapped in a towel and stuffed into a waterproof sack, so should survive the ordeal. Power will be supplied via a 12V battery and a small solar panel)

:-)

Trygve

Me? A geek?

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Date: 24 Jun 2003 00:36:21 +0100

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Symbian OS on nB, eMail folders, GPRS and Vodaphone,

Answer to: Gianluca Gallino

Re.: Symbian OS on nB - Well, I wish the petition and yourself lot's of success and - although sceptical indeed - do hope you will be succesfull.

Answer to: Rolf Vonau

Re. eMail folders - I noted this as well a while back. Upon researching the folders I found that a lot of the files were actually old emails that were once upon a time copied from a different Psion machine. You can check the files by giving it the extension ".txt". It took me a little while to manually delete the files not present in the mailboxes anymore and than ran CleanIt to delete all the empty folders.

Answer to: Mark Deppe

Re. GPRS and Vodaphone - Strange. I opened and closed my mailbox and than left GPRS open and it closed after 3 minutes ..... ?

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 25 Jun 2003 03:47:49 +0100

From: Melvin Woody

Subject: Revo/Mako won't close

My Diamon Mako (= Psion Revo) will not close all the way. I can put a rubber band around it to make it close all the way, but for some reason, when I try to close it in the normal way, it stops with about a half to three quarters inches to go. Does anyone have any advice about how to0 cure this problem? All I can make out visually is that the two little clips (about an eight of an inch long) in the middle of the rear of the machine (on the other side of the infra red send/receive port from the power plug connector) pop out of place when I try to close it all the way, so that the crack between the silver top and the black bottom make a slight bow from tight corners to perhaps 1/8th of an inch wide in the middle. I'd be grateful for advice about how to fix the problem.